Farsi love songs, including a tribute to Norma Winstone, from the German-Iranian singer Cymin Samawatie.
Cymin Samawatie and her trio, joined by violist Martin Stegner as a kind of second singer, deepening the sense of East/West dialogue in the music. Settings of the Iranian poet Forough Farrokhzaad — to whom the album is dedicated — besides Cymin’s own lyrics, classic Sufi poetry by Hafiz, and the verse of Nima Yushij.